Gene expression and functional analyses in brassinosteroid-mediated stress tolerance.

ABSTRACT: The plant hormone brassinosteroid (BR) plays essential roles in plant growth and development, while also controlling plant stress responses. This dual ability of BR is intriguing from a mechanistic point of view and as a viable solution for stabilizing crop yields under the changing climatic conditions. Here we report a time course analysis of BR responses under both stress and no-stress conditions, the results of which establish that BR incorporates many stress-related features even under no-stress conditions, which are then accompanied by a dynamic stress response under unfavourable conditions. Found within the BR transcriptome were distinct molecular signatures of two stress hormones, abscisic acid and jasmonic acid, which were correlated with enhanced endogenous levels of the two hormo

SUBMITTER: Divi UK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11389030 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature